Chapter 253: Would You Like To Act Tough With Me?
Translator: Translation Nation Editor: Translation Nation
The Fire Emperor who was fleeing towards the back of the palace along with his officials and generals could hear Xu Que singing from afar. When he heard this, even his nose turned crooked in anger and his heart was hammering in his chest. He knew that his reputation was thoroughly tarnished at this point.
A devilish song with such lyrics would certainly spread across the entire city rapidly!
No! Across the entire Fire Nation!
No! Across the entire five nations!
At this point, the Fire Emperor was truly enraged. He wanted to ignore everything else in this world and rush out to fight with this dog Xu Que to the death.
Endure! Hold it in!
Remaining alive and surviving was the most important thing. Even if he was so angry that his heart was about to explode, he had to endure!
He hastened his footsteps as he led the group of ministers and officials towards the sacred grounds.
The Imperial Guards didn’t know that the Fire Emperor was fleeing away with his important officials. However, after hearing Xu Que’s song, they turned around to look at the now empty palace before fleeing in apanic.
The Fire Emperor has fled with the ministers and officials?
Damn it! This Dog Emperor is really inhumane! We were so willing to die for him and yet when it came to such a critical moment, he didn’t take us with him?
He really wants us to sacrifice and die here for him!
No, we cannot be humiliated this way. We have to fight to live!
Boom!
At this point, an entire group of Imperial Guards turned around and started shouting out in fear.
"Lord Prince Consort! Please have mercy! We surrender!"
"We shall give you our support! We wouldn’t want to serve the Fire Emperor anymore since he treats our lives with such impunity!"
"Is the Heavenly Explosion Faction still recruiting? We are willing to join as guards to protect important members!"
An entire group of Imperial Guards had been swayed by his song and started shouting out towards him.
The group of people standing outside the Imperial Palace were all stumped. They had thought that when the guards charged towards Xu Que, they were all out for blood and wanted to kill him. Nobody expected that they would surrender to him.
This…
There was absolutely no other way for these Imperial Guards. To make an enemy out Duan Jiu De was honestly worse than death. At the same time, they couldn’t figure out how the Emperor could be so thick skinned. He had been humiliated to such an extent but still fought so hard to live! If this was any other normal person, he would’ve surrendered himself to death and finished this conflict once and for all.
"Scram, scram, scram! I can’t even be bothered to kill you now. What do you take the Heavenly Explosion Faction as? Do you think we just accept any random person? You guys won’t even be fit to wash our toilets! Just get out of my way and hinder me no longer. A good dog doesn't obstruct the roads. That dog Emperor, where is he running to?" Xu Que acted as if he didn’t care about the Imperial Guards at all. He then retrieved his guitar and kept it with him.
"He must’ve gone to the sacred grounds within the Imperial Palace. That’s the single place in the entire palace which has the strongest fortifications!" One of the Imperial Guards exclaimed.
"Sacred grounds in the Imperial Palace?" Xu Que raised his brows and replied.
When the crowd heard this, they were all astonished as well.
The Imperial Palace’s sacred grounds was a forbidden location built by the very first Fire Emperor. He had invited the most powerful cultivators around to assist him with the powerful spells placed within it. Only people with the blood of the Imperial family were able to activate the entrance. Apart from the Imperial family, nobody else would be able to break through the spell!
"Xu Que, that’s enough. Let’s end it here! You can never enter the sacred grounds!" The Water Empress’ lips moved gently as she communicated with Xu Que through a voice in his head.
Xu Que’s eyes turned towards the Water Empress as he smiled, "But it’s only several small spells. How do you know that I wouldn’t be able to break
through it? Should we bet on that? If you lose, you have to eat what’s below! (If you lose, I will cook noodles for you!)"
The Water Empress ignored Xu Que as she shook her head and replied, "The sacred grounds within the Imperial Palace is far from ordinary and very similar to the powerful spells of the tombs. Using spells to break through is impossible. Only someone with the blood of the Imperial family flowing beneath their veins would be able to enter. Either that, or physical strength is needed to dig through!"
What?
Physical strength to dig through?
As soon as Xu Que heard this, he was elated!
Another place which could be burrowed through? Isn’t that too easy?
Xu Que called out to the system in his head, "System, would I get a discount for renting 10 excavators?"
The system replied coldly, "Nope."
"Wow! Aren’t you too sly? I won’t even use the excavators for a day. You charge me 500 act tough points for a 24 hour rental. Then if I rent it for only two hours, can you charge me 10 act tough points?" "The two hour charge is 50 act tough points!"
"Fuck me! You crafty cheat! Were you taught math by your physical education teacher? 500 act tough points for 24 hours, wouldn’t that be 41.666666 act tough points for two hours? Even if you wished to round off the figure, it would only be 42 act tough points!"
"The two hour charge is 50 act tough points!"
"Alright, great, fantastic. You scam! 50 act tough points, huh? Then I shall rent 10 excavators for 2 hours! 500 act tough points! You can add that sum to the outstanding loan!" Xu Que was extremely furious that he strengthened his resolve that he was never going to pay this amount back!
"There’s no need for you to look so angry. Your objective was to make a fool out of the Fire Emperor. It seems like you’ve achieved that goal in front of everyone here! As for revenge, I am certain that there would be more opportunities for you to do so in the future!" the Water Empress noticed that Xu Que looked extremely upset and assumed that he looked this way because he was unable to break through the spells of the sacred grounds. She thus communicated with him once more to console him.
She thought very highly of this budding cultivator, Xu Que. She knew that if she could recruit him to join the Sky Incense Valley, he could certainly rise to a very high rank!
When Xu Que heard this, he shook his head, "Since I have yet to achieve my revenge, I shall have it! As for these mere protective spells, they can’t hold me back! Little miss, do you know how to operate an excavator?"
"Ah?" The Water Empress was stumped.
Excavator? What is that?
She shook her head, not minding the strange things Xu Que was saying as she laughed, "I have never heard of such an item."
"That’s fine. I shall teach you! Using the excavator can be very fun!" Xu Que smiled as he spoke.
"..." The Water Empress looked up, rather intrigued and interested.
Xu Que didn’t speak further as he retracted his pair of black wings.
With a whoosh, his body shot back down towards the ground.
Soon after, he retrieved a single excavator from the system inventory and allowed it to land heavily on the ground beside him!
"Boom!"
The earth beneath the excavator cracked as rocks and debris were thrown up.
"Yo, my apologies. That was too much power!" Xu Que smiled at the Water Empress as he spoke.
The entire crowd raised their eyebrows as their eyes were opened wide in shock and astonishment.
"Fuck me!"
"What weapon is this?"
"It’s huge!"
"It’s shape looks so strange. Could this be a powerful killer weapon from Heavenly Explosion Faction?"
"Could he be thinking of using this weapon to break through the sacred grounds of the Imperial Palace? Impossible! Be it a weapon or spells, it would be impossible to penetrate the thick defenses of that place!"
"Looks like he’s trying to see if the rumors about the sacred grounds are true!"
"I dare to bet that this weapon wouldn’t be effective despite its formidable appearance. After all, the spells of the sacred grounds were conjured by the very first Fire Emperor."
"That’s right. Cultivators of those era were much powerful than the cultivators now!"
Everyone shook their heads in unison.
The Water Empress was astonished as well and
and extremely curious. She looked at the weapon which had been summoned by Xu Que.
"That’s an excavator? Is that a weapon?" The Water Empress then looked towards Xu Que and asked gently, her eyes emitting a curious look as she became more interested.
Xu Que waved his hands as he exclaimed proudly, "You’re wrong. This isn’t just a weapon. It’s a Godly Weapon!"
"Godly Weapon? That can’t be... There isn’t any spiritual power flowing in this weapon." The Water Empress shook her head, her brows were knitted as she spoke.
"Yo don’t believe me? Just you wait!" Xu Que then stepped up onto the excavator and sat in the seat as he started operating it!
The excavator was activated and made loud whirring sounds.
The motor of the excavator ramped up as its arm started moving and vibrating loudly, moving towards the walls of the palace!
"Boom doom!" A loud sound rang out as the walls of the Imperial Palace collapsed.
Stone and debris flew in all places.
Indeed, Xu Que had operated the arm of the machine to dig through the walls of the palace, clearing a passageway ahead for him!
The crowd were all stumped by this. They opened their mouths wide in disbelief!
This… This is way too powerful!
It doesn’t even need a core energy to be used yet it’s so powerful!
The Water Empress blinked in shock as her eyes gleamed with excitement.
"Chiya chiya chiya…"
Xu Que operated the excavator as he dug through the concrete walls. He then drove the excavator towards the Water empress as he slapped the empty seat beside him, "Fair little lady, your skin is so soft and smooth, would you like to act tough together with me?"
Chapter 254: This Old Bus Driver Is About To Drive Off. Move Away!Translator: Translation Nation Editor: Translation Nation
The way Xu Que had behaved and the words he spoke had completely left the crowd stunned!
Although all of them could tell that the Water Empress had some relations with Xu Que as though they were old friends, they were still shocked.
This person is the Water Empress! Someone who came from such a formidable background and whose status was loftier and more important than the Fire Emperor! She was even the most powerful disciple of the Sky Incense Valley and is now the esteemed Water Empress of the Water Nation!
Yet you actually referred to her as ‘fair little lady"?
Skin is soft and smooth?
Fuck me! Is your life’s mission to offend as many monarch as possible?
However…
The situation had exceeded the wildest imaginations of everyone around!
The calm and composed, sweet tempered and mild mannered yet highly esteemed Water Empress, who many people never got a chance to see in their entire lives, wasn’t the least angry!
Instead, her lips parted to reveal a wide smile. Her gorgeous smile was so alluring that it made everyone feel as though all the good things in this world had happened to them. The magnanimous and charming aura on her wafted around, causing everyone to feel a strange sense of happiness.
Amidst the shocked and appalling looks given by everyone around, the Water Empress laughed softly as she replied, "Alright."
She then stepped atop Xu Que’s excavator and sat down beside him!
"Let’s go then. The old bus driver is about to drive off. Move away everyone! Move away please! If I run over you, I shan’t be paying any insurance!"
Xu Que then pulled the gear in one direction as he stepped on the gas pedal, which caused the excavator to start moving. It then cruised into the Imperial Palace after its walls had been knocked down by this very machine.
"Little fair lady, watch closely. This is the gear and this is the accelerator. Once you step on it, it moves!"
The sounds of the excavator moving were getting rather loud and yet Xu Que could be heard teaching the Water Empress on how he was operating it.
The Water Empress paid very close attention as she listened and nodded her head from time to time.
The look on her face was one of a student who was learning and listening in class.
The crowd were all stumped by
stumped by this.
As they watched Xu Que bring the Water Empress towards the Imperial Palace, moving further away from view, everyone started to regain their senses as they looked towards one another in shock. Their eyes were opened wide in disbelief!
"Am… Am I seeing this right? The Water Empress is following Xu Que as he digs his way in?"
"You didn’t see it wrong… because I’m seeing the same situation!"
"But what the hell is going on?! Why is the Water Empress showing so much care and concern for that Lord Prince Consort?"
"She probably started pitying and sympathizing with his plight. After all, someone like the Water Empress has such a big heart, she never hesitates to interact with mere commoners!"
"Indeed! Besides, the powers exhibited by the Lord Prince Consort was tremendous and impressive as well!"
"At the Original Infant Stage, he’s already so skilled and powerful. It’s no wonder that the Water Empress feels a certain bond towards him!"
"Ai, I wonder when will I have an opportunity like that as well. To sit with the Water Empress as we sit atop the excavator and take a sweet joy ride in the palace!"
"Outrageous! The Water Empress holds such a high and divine status and is the powerful monarch whom many people never had the chance to see with their own eyes. And you dare to harbor such fantasies about her?"
"Exactly! The audacity of you!"
"Immoral!"
"Come, let’s go nearer to take a closer look. I wish to see how powerful this excavator truly is. There’s even a chance that it might be able to dig through the palace and break into the sacred grounds!"
Amidst the discussions, everyone started flocking towards the Imperial Palace.
After the Imperial Palace lost the protection of its guards, nobody stood by the entrances to prevent unauthorized access. An entire group of nosey outsiders then entered the palace, hoping to catch a glimpse of action.
Xu Que was still riding with the Water Empress, cruising towards the back of the palace, looking extremely flashy.
There was a tall wall built at the back of the palace. It seemed like an entire area of lush greenery rested behind the wall.
There was another separate building in the middle as well.
Xu Que was thus made to stop since he was being obstructed!
The entire wall was covered with a layer of light. The light was so thick and resplendent, an indicative that many spells were casted within. The layer of light even seem to extend behind the wall, covering the trees and plants.
In the middle was a large bronze door with a dragon inscribed on the wall. The dragon was made up many strange words and had the aura of powerful ancient magic. Atop the door, there was also a sign board which read, "Sacred Grounds!"
Xu Que casted a glance towards the wall and looked at the layer of light. He could then faintly feel the Fire Emperor along with a dozen other shadows lurking behind as they ran towards the building at the other side of the wall.
A dozen eunuch were running towards the building as well as they carried large spiritual boulders, which were filled with strange inscriptions. They tossed the boulders by the side, erecting an altar of sorts.
Atop the altar were strange writings which formed the strength of the spells. Xu Que could see the boulders and their inscription through the spell wall. Although Xu Que wasn’t very skilled in deciphering such inscriptions, he knew that there were many layers of spells embedded within.
"This is a small scale teleportation spell!" The Water Empress saw it and exclaimed loudly.
One look was enough for her to recognize what it was. The large boulders sat together, forming the altar and she could tell that the teleportation device was almost completed.
Xu Que listened to her as his brows were raised.
This dog Emperor is too cunning! He actually built a teleportation device and tried to flee.
Did he think that he was going to best me with this?
This Act Tough King has numerous tricks up his sleeves and he’s ready to play this game with you till the very end. And yet, you thought you were clever by attempting to flee with your officials and ministers.
At this point, he condensed his energy within his dantian and shouted out loudly, "Dog Emperor, you’re going to forsake your own Imperial Palace? What kind of monarch are you? How dare you create a teleportation device to flee? If you have If you have the guts, come out and fight with me! In this realm of cultivation, the most important characteristic would be to have courage. And yet you don’t have a single ounce of courage to have a solo duel with me. How do you still have the pride to continue living in this world? Be careful that your heart’s demons don’t wreck you!"
The Fire Emperor and his officials had long heard movement behind them and paused in shock, turning their heads back to see what the source was.
The wall between them wasn’t very tall. Xu Que and the Water Empress sat atop the seat of the excavator, letting them peer over the wall clearly. Hence, half of their bodies were made visible to the Fire Emperor.
As soon as they saw Xu Que and the Water Empress, the Fire Emperor and his officials were all taken aback.
Right at this point, there was a buzz within the Imperial Palace as many cultivators executed their own spells in order to let them have a closer look at the situation. Each of them were afraid to miss out on a good show.
However, as soon as they saw the powerful spells before the Sacred Grounds, all of them paused in shock.
Before this, nobody had the chance of entering the Imperial Palace, much less seeing the Sacred Grounds with their own eyes. It’s been said that nobody ever had the chance of seeing immense spells placed over the Sacred Grounds with their own eyes that’s why everything that they knew were based from rumors.
At this point, having witnessed this personally, they were all astonished.
One look and anyone could tell that the quality of spells casted over the Sacred Grounds wasn’t compromised at all. In fact, these were all extremely high grade and powerful restrictive spells. There wasn’t even the slightest chance for a normal cultivator to break through a single spell, much less the entire complex weave of numerous powerful spells.
Much less Xu Que, a mere Original Infant cultivator. Even a Void Refining Stage cultivator probably wouldn’t stand a chance in the face of such a wall.
With this multitude of restrictive spells, how could one ever hope of breaking through it?
There were no particular place to start with for there wasn’t a single weakness on this wall. Unless the entire wall was demolished, there was no way of breaking the spell.
Indeed, nobody around had the slightest doubt about the capabilities of this excavator. After witnessing how it demolished the palace walls effortlessly, it wouldn’t be a problem for the excavator to knock down this wall, which held all the powerful spells in place.
However, they’ve also seen the numerous eunuchs working on the teleportation device and saw that it was very near to completion. It wouldn’t be much longer before it would be completed.
Was it possible for the excavator to demolish this spell wall before the completion?
The crowd shook their heads. That was going to be too difficult… almost impossible!
However, to most of them, the fact that Xu Que had made it up to this point was remarkable.
The Heavenly Explosion Faction is truly not simple with the number of genius and talented people within. Besides, they also have a myriad of strange equipments including this Godly Weapon!
Before this was the God Powered Cannon and now, the excavator. All these were equipments which nobody had ever seen or heard of before!
It was a shame that there was only a single excavator on him. Despite the fact that its prowess were out of this world, it was going to be an impossible feat for only one excavator to break through the powerful spell wall. His efforts were futile.
It was precisely because of this, that the Fire Emperor was rather calm and composed. When he saw the Water Empress sitting together with Xu Que, his heart raged out. He then lowered his voice and spoke solemnly towards the Water Empress.
"Hong Yan, what’s the meaning of this? How could you sit with someone like him? Unless you wish to make an enemy of me and pit yourself against the Fire Nation?"
Following the Fire Emperor’s exclamation, everyone turned to look at the Water Empress as well.
Many people had already speculated and guessed what the relationship between the Water Empress and Xu Que was.
Why was she so protective over him and why would she, as a monarch, sit beside him this way?